Accelerated telomere shortening in glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-negative compared with GPI-positive granulocytes from patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) detected by proaerolysin flow-FISH

Blood

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 531-533

  Beier, Fabian ^b   Balabanov, Stefan ^b   Buckley, Tom ^b   Dietz, Klaus ^b   Hartmann, Ulrike ^b   Rojewski, Markus ^b   Kanz, Lothar ^b   Schrezenmeier, Hubert ^b   Brümmendorf, Tim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROLYSIN; DYE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PROAEROLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GRANULOCYTE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

EID: 22144437035     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-10-3996     Document Type: Article

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